Low-latency, selective, affirmative, and/or reversible acknowledgement of message transmission

An apparatus for acknowledging message transmission, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configures the processor to:
• receive a text message from a message sender in a chat room between the message sender and a message recipient on a mobile application executing on a smartphone associated with the message recipient;
• detect a first short press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that a read receipt associated with the text message is to be transmitted to the message sender;
• transmit the read receipt to the message sender such that an indication that the text message has been received and acknowledged by the message recipient is displayed both on the message sender's display screen and the message recipient's display screen;
• subsequent to displaying the indication on both of the display screens, detect a second short press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that the message recipient desires to take further action with respect to the text message for which the read receipt has been displayed;
• in response to detecting the second short press user input, cause the indication that the message has been received and acknowledged by the message recipient to be removed from both the message sender's display screen and the message recipient's display screen;
• detect a long press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that the message recipient desires to take further action with respect to the text message for which the read receipt has been displayed;
• and
• in response to detecting the long press user input, cause a user interface element including multiple available user actions to be displayed on the message recipient's display screen for selection by the message recipient.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computer system to perform a method for acknowledging message transmission comprising:

• receiving a text message from a message sender in a chat room between the message sender and a message recipient on a mobile application executing on a smartphone associated with the message recipient;
• detecting a short press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that a read receipt associated with the text message is to be transmitted to the message sender;
• transmitting the read receipt to the message sender such that an indication that the text message has been received and acknowledged by the message recipient is displayed both on the message sender's display screen and the message recipient's display screen;
• subsequent to displaying the indication on both of the display screens, detecting a second short press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that the message recipient desires to take further action with respect to the text message for which the read receipt has been displayed;
• in response to detecting the second short press user input, causing the indication that the message has been received and acknowledged by the message recipient to be removed from both the message sender's display screen and the message recipient's display screen;
• detecting a long press user input from the message recipient with respect to the text message, indicating that the message recipient desires to take further action with respect to the text message for which the read receipt has been displayed;
• and
• in response to detecting the long press user input, causing a user interface element including multiple available user actions to be displayed on the message recipient's display screen for selection by the message recipient.